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ELON: THE IDEA THAT SPACEX IS SUBSIDIZED IS A COMPLETE MISUNDERSTANDING Tucker Carlson: “You've got to be one of the biggest government contractors?” Elon: We do essential work for the government. We do useful essential work that we compete for and win contracts on because our product is much... better and costs less. That's why we get government contracts. If you take, for example, the NASA contract to transport astronauts to and from the Space Station, NASA awarded two contracts at the start, one to Boeing and one to SpaceX. Boeing was awarded twice as much as SpaceX. SpaceX has done all the astronaut transport from the space station, and Boeing has only done one transport of two astronauts to the space station, and we have to bring them back. Boeing got twice as much as SpaceX! There's this total misunderstanding that my companies have been subsidized and supported by the government.” Source: Interview with Tucker Carlson, October 2024show more

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Elon Musk: There's a total misunderstanding that my companies are being subsidized and supported by the government. “We've got to be one of the biggest government contractors. We do essential work for the government. We do useful essential work that we compete for and win contracts on because our product is much better and costs less. If you take, for example, the NASA contract to transport astronauts to and from the space station, NASA awarded two contracts at the start, one to Boeing and one to SpaceX. Boeing was awarded twice as much as SpaceX. SpaceX has done all the astronaut transport from the space station and Boeing has only done one transport of two astronauts to the space station. And we have to bring them back. Boeing got twice as much as SpaceX. There's this total misunderstanding that my companies have been subsidized and supported by the government. Do you really think that a Biden administration is going to subsidize me? Probably not. Are you kidding? No. In fact, they take away every contract they possibly can. So, for example, there was the FCC $42 billion contract for providing rural broadband. We actually first said, look, we think there shouldn't be any subsidies, so we recommend that this program just not exist. But since you're insisting that it exist, we will compete and we have better products. So we won, I don't know about a quarter of it, which would have included the devastated areas like North Carolina and stuff. And the FCC took it away illegally. They just voted three out of five commissioners voted away and said, even though you won it, we're rescinding it. On what grounds? And do you know how many people they've connected? Zero. So you think that was political? Well, the three Democrats voted against it. And the two Republicans voted for it.” Source: Interview with Tucker Carlson, October 7, 2024

Elon Musk: There's a total misunderstanding that my companies are being subsidized and supported by the government. “We've got to be one of the biggest government contractors. We do essential work for the government. We do useful essential work that we compete for and win contracts on because our product is much better and costs less. If you take, for example, the NASA contract to transport astronauts to and from the space station, NASA awarded two contracts at the start, one to Boeing and one to SpaceX. Boeing was awarded twice as much as SpaceX. SpaceX has done all the astronaut transport from the space station and Boeing has only done one transport of two astronauts to the space station. And we have to bring them back. Boeing got twice as much as SpaceX. There's this total misunderstanding that my companies have been subsidized and supported by the government. Do you really think that a Biden administration is going to subsidize me? Probably not. Are you kidding? No. In fact, they take away every contract they possibly can. So, for example, there was the FCC $42 billion contract for providing rural broadband. We actually first said, look, we think there shouldn't be any subsidies, so we recommend that this program just not exist. But since you're insisting that it exist, we will compete and we have better products. So we won, I don't know about a quarter of it, which would have included the devastated areas like North Carolina and stuff. And the FCC took it away illegally. They just voted three out of five commissioners voted away and said, even though you won it, we're rescinding it. On what grounds? And do you know how many people they've connected? Zero. So you think that was political? Well, the three Democrats voted against it. And the two Republicans voted for it.” Source: Interview with Tucker Carlson, October 7, 2024

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